hints and tips

[Great Mattezuma]

If you've got units miles away from your cities where you want them, the best way to get them back is to find another civ and plonk ure units in their terriotory. They'll tell you to move them, and then threaten you and you'll get an option box, to which you answer.. yes, withdraw units.

its great when you can be bothered to spend ages moving ure units back to ure cities. Also the go command is sometimes a bit dodgy and units end up just wandering round aimlessly.

Any comments?

Mattezuma

 

[funxus]

I can't remember ever being in a situation where I'm so desperate to get my units back, or have left them all alone like that. But I know it's possible and probably would use it if I need to, despite it being on the verge of a cheat (at least "morally").

 

[Ace]

Its not even a "morally" cheat. Its just like you insisting the ai remove his units from your city radius. And sometimes its the only way to recover a unit of yours that becomes trapped by ai units while scouting. The ai always pushes units into your face when you find him, trying to get you out of its territory.

As far as using it as a "neat way" to get units home, its easier to build new units. And you don't really want the exploring units to get sent home. You want them to continue exploring.

 

[funxus]

Well, I think it's a bit of a cheat to deliberately use this feature to transport units half way around the globe instantly, especially early in the game, when such an effort would take much longer time. What other think of it is up to them.

 

[YNCS]

I'm usually annoyed when my units are exploring, stumble on the AI's terrority, and without a chance to move them away, the AI forces my units to be transported to someplace where I don't want them. I see it as a cheat on the AI's part.

 

[Old n Slow]

I've rarely used it as a free ticket home -- guess I thought that it made relations worse. (Friendlier situations give a one turn warning, less freindly (and repeated infractions) don't.)

 

[dragontooth182]

sometimes when i wander into other AI's territory, i mostly move unless i want to kill them. then i just refuse to move.